So Microsoft Teams led me to discover Office 365 Groups. The biggest failing, for me is the apparent inability to start a document in Word or Excel and then SaveAs to the Group's file store (unless I have already opened a file from the Group and it's in my recent). I'm I missing something?

Thank you, I found that link right after I posted. It's still an issue for me though. It looks like from the screenshot in the blog that it only shows "Frequented Sites". The groups I want to save to are not "Frequent Sites" and I don't know how to make them "Frequent". I am on the latest build (well, I should say I'm on "Current Channel" and it says I have the latest update.

Is there any update on this? I've recently presented Office Groups as a means to migrate files from a file share to SharePoint, but the inability to Open or Save As... from Office applications is a showstopper. The only way I can do it is to paste the URL of the group shared documents into explorer when opening/saving a document, which is not ideal.

Something similar to the way you can save to a group in Outlook would be ideal.

This suggests something has been in and out of the first release version of Office.

Is there a definitive update on when this is coming? Given the recent Skype for Business -> Teams announcements I'd really like to adopt Teams, but our users can't save files easily to the teams/group file location so I can't recommend it.

Thanks for the reply - however, the issue is that the Sites section in Office apps doesn't show/easily allow navigation to Office 365 group sites (unless I'm missing something). The only thing I see in Sites is our main SharePoint site, and any sites I've previously saved to.

So if I want to save to a new Office 365 Group site, I need to type in https://mydomain.sharepoint.com/sites/groupsitename and then navigate from there? This isn't very user friendly for 'ordinary' users - it would be much more preferable to have a list of groups to choose from (a little like the Outlook functionality for saving attachments)

This is a big problem when trying to move staff over to Groups. The only way I have been able to get around it (which is not a quick and easy solution) is to "Pin" my groups in the various applications. It took a little time to get all those set up but in the long run works better than the save to desktop and then upload to the group every time.

Thanks for that - and letting me know about the replies on the other post.

I've updated to the insider channel, and they are indeed there, albeit in a slightly (completely) random order :) Moving in the right direction - let's hope it hits general release sooner rather than later.

In the meantime, may also be worth checking out the Sync'ing of these libraries with OneDrive for Business. In the Fall Creator release of Windows, Files on Demand makes this a more usable solution, as you don't get all the files on your local PC - just those you're working on.

I wanted to tack onto Christophe's original post about the Groups integration feature within the Office apps (Word, PowerPoint and Excel.) I'm a PM on the Office team (specifically working on this integration with Groups) and wanted to give everyone a brief update on where we are on the release.

We originally targeted releasing this integration (the ability to open from and save Office files to Groups) more broadly at the beginning of summer (May/June.) Thanks to some initial Insiders feedback, we adjusted the design to include groups that users have followed (as well as the ones that have been frequently used) and updated the file and location picking experience. Along the way, we found a number of issues that needed fixing before we exposed the feature more broadly.

At this point, we've restarted the roll out with the October fork of Office 365, starting with Insiders. Our goal is to get the experience enabled for everyone in the next month or so.

Let us know if you have questions and thank you for your patience as we roll out this feature!

The experience you are seeing is what will likely be in the first release.

To each of your points:

1) We are looking into different ways of making this list a bit easier to manage for future releases. The ability to remove a Group from the list is one of them, as well as supporting ways to filter the list.

2) I'll need to follow up on the ordering of the followed list. I believe it is ordered by when you followed the site on the SharePoint experience...

3) The ability to 'pin' a group is also something we are looking at for future releases. We already support a way to do this within the Office apps (you can pin a specific location to the Save As experience) but I think you are asking for something that appears wherever you access a Group (whether it be Outlook, SharePoint or Office) - correct?

Thank you Finally someone responds who knows what they are talking about. the only documentation anywhere is the original roll out of May, nothing about anything feature being held back or any bugs about this since then. No wonder everyone keeps researching and led here desperately seeking answers to obvious shortcomings in a widely publicised badly pushed Teams feature. I don't see why this wasn't written into the code on day one as its such an obvious requirement. Teams should never have arrived without proper testing first by end users. Like the onedive/skydrive/onedrive buisness/win 10 onedrive saga Microsoft need to start employing people to point out the obvious before anything is released.

Its not good enough to be trying to train staff to use these new features when they aren't complete or keep changing. Onedrive has only recently accepted # in a file name. Seriously? How many years has it been alive now.

Patience shouldn't ever be needed, that's the problem right there. This requirement was obvious to any end user so how did they miss it at the Teams rollout.

Any update on releasing this to the targeted channel? This seems like a major integration that is missing for end users to embrace Groups and Teams, and it has been a requested feature for a very long time.

@Eric Hepinstall - as we just went to the monthly update channel recently, this would not reach the semi- annual channel until 2019, if that is what you mean by 'targeted' channel. Let me know though if I misunderstood your question....

Between a bad group policy, and not fully understanding the current state of release schedules, I was behind on Office updates. I read up on the new channel naming, grabbed the latest ADMX and switched to monthly release. I now have version 1801 and can see the Groups/sites integration. Thanks!